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Great video by Practice & Space about the legendary Jay Ryan!
The Bird Machine, inc., is a screen print poster workshop, owned and run by Jay Ryan, which is located very close to Chicago.

Jay has been making hand drawn screen printed posters for bands, and the clubs they play at since 1995. Jay is joined at the Bird Machine shop by Michael Lauritano and Jack Ryan. Many thanks to Jay and everyone at the Bird Machine for letting me invade their space.

Murder By Death have always been a band to count on for really amazing merch. They now have their own beer possibly called Murder By Beer? Brewed by BuckleyBrau. It looks like they have done this before but this time around have changed it up a bit. I hope I can get my hands on some of it!

A little while back we posted the packaging for Eksi Ekso‘s Brown Shark, Red lion CD jackets with full booklet and great artwork. Unfortunately to reproduce those for a vinyl release would be overly expensive. XE XO have release a few pictures of the vinyl release and they look pretty awesome!

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